- 1. n. One who limits, or restrains. Source: opted
- 2. n. An overprecise person; one rigidly or ceremoniously exact in the observance of rules; a formalist; -- formerly applied to the English Puritans. Source: opted
- 3. 1. One who limits, or restrains. [Obs.] 2. An overprecise person; one rigidly or ceremoniously exact in the observance of rules; a formalist; -- formerly applied to the English Puritans. The most dissolute cavaliers stood aghast at the dissoluteness of the emancipated precisian. Macaulay. Source: webster
- 4. n. One who limits, or restrains. n. An overprecise person; one rigidly or ceremoniously exact in the observance of rules; a formalist; -- formerly applied to the English Puritans. Source: ecdict
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